lorenzobane:

Ranking Julian Bashir’s canon relationships bc ??? why not

1.) Julian/Melora: Tbh controversial opinion, I think she is one of his best-written love interests and fit him the best in terms of actual personality. She was ambitious, found him attractive and interesting, and was prideful but also snarky and clever. She had her own motivations, life, and interactions with people who weren’t him! I think it would have been really cool to see how their relationship could have unfolded given different writing decisions. 8/10

2.) Julian/Leeta: I think they’re basically fine, nothing particularly interesting but nothing too terrible either. I take the opinion that Julian himself seems to take, which is that it’s fun and it’s fine- two people who find each other hot and enjoy hooking up. I never got the feeling that it was particularly “deep,” but they had a good time, and I feel pretty neutral about them. 6/10

3.) Julian/Ezri: My other hot take is that Julian and Ezri really could have worked. They’re in the same field (healthcare), they work together on Nog’s PTSD treatment plan (he backs up her plan but still), she shares interests with him, like a love of reading (she gives him a copy of A Tale of Two Cities which apparently Jadzia had and never gave him even though he’s often expressed an interest in literature. Whatever) and they both have complicated family dynamics in similar ways. They both are children of extremely high-pressure parents, and they both left and were extremely firm about it. Like it COULD have worked- the part that makes it hard to actually enjoy is the Jadzia of it all. I would honestly hate it 100% less if they hadn’t brought back the Jadzia plot in s6 and referenced it in s7. Also, she’s his therapist, which is always a bad look. 5/10

4.) Julian/Sarina: GOD kill it with fire. So bad. So horrible. He sends her back into a catatonic state. Again, the premise is interesting; maybe they could have written it differently. But as far as I can tell, he “falls” for her basically because she is able to help him with his research, she gives him breakfast once, and she makes some good observations about Kira and Odo which. Alright. Apparently, if you want Julian Bashir to be insane about you, all you need to do is be smarter than him and feed him. -1000000/10

dreamsequencer:

bewilderedghost:

autumnal-ever:

The artist is Mark Parisi.

@duchesscutlery

fuck-philip-banks:

obserbolisk:

Wikipedia most webbed site of all time.

why did you think it was a good idea to inform tumblr of this debate

lesbianfrasiercrane:

Hi hi hi hi hi bomking my face on you like a small cat. Hello. Hi

christianstepmoms:

zoethebitch:

Here’s what’s gonna happen. You’re gonna take 4 russet potatoes. You’re gonna peel them and dice them. You’re gonna set them in a bowl of cold water so they don’t oxidize. Then you’re gonna cook a half pound of bacon until crispy and set it aside. You’re gonna melt 4 tablespoons of butter in a dutch oven. No more, no less. Add some diced onion and garlic to that. Saute it for a couple minutes. Then you’re gonna add 4 tablespoons of flour and make a roux. You’re gonna add 3 cups of milk to the roux. Slowly. Don’t get in a hurry. Then add 3 cups of chicken stock. Add plenty of salt and pepper. Bring it to a boil. Add your potatoes in. Let that simmer for 20 minutes. Then you’re gonna add some sour cream, the chopped up bacon from earlier, and some grated cheddar. You’re gonna stir that together for 5 minutes. And then garnish it with a little green onion and shredded cheddar. You got it?

Thanks Mike.

deepstatemedia:

charle1515:

I like how Garak really had the audacity to approach one of the Founders and go “Hey! Remember how my people tried to wipe out your people you a few weeks ago? By bombing your homeworld? Were there any survivors from the attacking fleet? : )”

god i love Garak so much. he can be such a dick sometimes, but all while maintaining that same polite and helpful smile he has when plainly serving customers as a tailor

thevanillahorizon:

kalessinsdaughter:

The other day, I went down the rabbit hole of “cute donkeys” and came up with my head full of things I didn’t know about mules (the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey), and why they were once so coveted as work animals.

Brace for info dump, while enjoying this lovely photo of a trio of draft mules.

The explanation is hybrid vigour (when hybrid offspring have enhanced traits compared to its parents):

Mules are stronger, hardier, healthier, have better endurance, harder hooves, sturdier skin and can handle extreme weather better than horses or donkeys. They are also more patient, more intelligent, and easier to handle than either of their parent species. Horses may be faster, but that’s about the single thing they’re better at than a mule of the same size.

So mules, being all around nicer to work with and getting you more work for the same amount of feed, and with less hassle, were preferred for just about every job purpose.

Habby du Magnou, a Poitevin Mulassier mare, and her daughter Lady du Magnou, a rare Poitevin mule

ALT

But since horses have 64 chromosomes and donkeys have 62, mules end up with 63 chromosomes, which means they are almost invariably sterile. That’s because biology gets very confused when trying to split an uneven number of chromosomes neatly in half to create germ cells. There are a few documented exceptions of fertile mule mares (never stallions), but they are very, very rare. So you have to keep crossbreeding the two parent species to produce them, usually by breeding a donkey sire (jack) to a horse dam (mare). This is because it’s easier for a 32 chromosome egg to incorporate a 31 chromosome sperm into a viable zygote (fertilised egg) than vice versa.

Because of this, there was (and still is) in France a breed of absolutely massive draft horses, the Poitevin Mulassier, and a breed of big-ass donkeys (pun intended, but honestly they’re arguably the largest donkeys in the world, and shaggy like Highland cattle), the Baudet du Poitou, two breeds whose main purpose was to breed the enormous and super-strong Poitevin mule.

The Poitevin mule

This absolute unit was the must-have work-animal for all kinds of farm and industrial work for centuries, and a significant French export, until mechanisation made these magnificent creatures obsolete.

With no demand for the Poitevin mule , its parent breeds dwindled, almost to the brink of extinction. Determined conservation efforts during the last few decades are slowly bringing their numbers back up, but they’re very far from their heyday, when some 20,000 Poitevin mules were born annually.

The Poitevin Mulassier

Both the parent breeds are still endangered, which means most of the current effort is directed into bringing up the numbers of Poitevin horses and Poitou donkeys. This means breeding horses to horses and donkeys to donkeys, with very few breeding opportunities allowed to produce the Poitevin mule. Only about 20 of those are born each year.

The Baudet du Poitou

Too bad OP didn’t talk about the sounds.

Specifically that a mule basically makes donkey sounds but with a horse accent.

eruvadhril:

creekfiend:

creekfiend:

While I’m talking about social stuff I had to learn as an autistic person

There’s a LOT of social interactions between human beings whose purpose really boils down to being like that thing dogs do where they go “omg YOU’RE a dog??? I’M a dog!!!!!” And that’s not a bad thing. Highly ritualized “meaningless” displays of human connection like friendly greetings and talking about things like weather actually do serve a purpose which is like idk ritualized displays birds do. YOU’RE a human? Omg I’M a human!!!! Wow!!!

And they don’t have to be your favorite flavor of interaction. You can even think they’re silly. But they DO serve a purpose or else they wouldn’t be a thing.

There’s lots of good and folksy responses to “how are you doing” that don’t involve either lying or undermining the ritualized purpose of the greeting exchange, too. My great grandmother Ethel for example was a big fan of “well, I’m a-doin’”

“Things like ‘How are you?’ and 'Have a nice day’ and 'What do you think of the weather, then?’ What these sounds mean is: I am alive and so are you.”

- Wings, by Terry Pratchett.